Improvement in curry-combs



UNITED STATES PATENT risica.

crans w. sanannn, or PUTNAM, onto IMPROVEMENT IN CURRY-COMBS.

Specitication forming part ofLet-ters Patent No. 46,71 dated March 7, 1867.

f'viding the (awry-comb with an arched4 back or i'rame to vhich is connected the ordinary handle, place 'l at right angles with the teeth, and by which is gained the desirable advantage ot two separate ways of grasping the comb, viz: The comb may be used rst by grasping the ordinary hand-le U, Figure l; or, when that is not desirable, the comb may be grasped immediately over the top ot' the same by letting the thumb of the right hand .--pa'ss under the handle c at D and there press against the cross-bar A of the frame A, Fig. 1, and with the ends ofthe tingers grasp the opposite cross-bar, A, at S.

There are some. positions in which the currycomb must needs be used upon the horse that will not admit of grasping it immediately over the back, while there-arc other positions in which the comb cannot be handled comfortably unless apermanent hold can be had otfitimmediately over the back or teeth of the same.

By this invention, as already intimated, I combine the. ordinary handle C with the arched back or frame A in such manner as to admit 'f usingthe comb" by a comfortable grasp upon the same, whether held by the handle U or grasped immediately overthe top ot' the comb or teeth, as already shown and described.

To enable others skilled in the art to malte and usc my said invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the tirst place, I produce the frame or back of the comb A either by stamping the same out of a plate ot metal or castingit malleable, with the handle cf, Fig. 1, permanently attached to the top of the arched. frame A A Al A" in the manner substantially as shown in. the drawings. This fra-me or back otthe comb A, I' arch up iu the center (see A, Fig. 2) suiiicieutly high to admit of thc thumb and fingers offthe hand to pass be .tween the cross-bars A A of the frame A A and the top ot the teeth-bars B B B B in the manner as already shown and described.` The teeth-bars B are secured to the ends ot'v the frame A 'by means ot' the rivets x, or by any other of the various well known modes ot" doing the same.

I am aware that two metallic handles placed over the top ot' the comb, with a view of giving a hold upon the comb in that manner, is known; but I am not advised that the idea of an arched frame or back upon curry combs, in combination with the handleof thc same, as hereinbetor'e shown and described,

is not strictly novel and of my invention. I

I therefore disclaim the idea ol' two metallic handles secured to the-sides or end softhq curry-comb, whether attached to the combl or`v a line parallel with the teeth of the same, diagonally across the corners over the topof the comb, or across the ends ot' the comb at right angles with the teeth ot' the same. A s

Hfor this device, I have already obtained Leti'rom the teeth; and, secondly, to use the combby that of no other grasp or holdthan by the two metallic handles placed parallel to each other on the top of the comb, or in a position immediately over the top of the teeth of the same. But further experience in the use of a comb constructed upon the plan'ot'vmy patent aforesaid has shown me the absolute. necessity of the old handle C, Fig. 1, in combination with a device that willaiinit ot' grasping or holdin g the cemb immediately over `the top of thesame, as hereinbefore shown and di scribed, and which fact, I. may be permitted to state, has led me to the invention hereby presented for another grant of Letters Patent.

Now, what I claim as new, of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arched frame or back` A A A A" of the curry-comb, in combination with the hanf dle C c in the manner` and for the purpose substantially as shown and described.

CYRUS W. SALADEE. Witnesses:

E. A. SALADEE, JOHN MURRAY. 

